Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:59:44 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, dervish@bantu.cl.msu.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? Message-ID: <369A9070.F9DCC718@softweyr.com> References: <199901112152.NAA25190@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Steve Kargl wrote:
>
> According to Matthew Dillon:
> >
> > But, most importantly, there has been a general trend towards ELF in the
> > last decade and getting on that bandwagon is important, especially if we
> > want to maintain native compatibility with Linux and other operating
> > systems. The importance of maintaining compatibility cannot be
> > underestimated.
>
> Actually, hasn't FSF dropped support/development of a.out tools.
> So, if FreeBSD wants to continue to use FSF compiler technology,
> then we are compelled to move forward to ELF.
And that is the strongest reason to move to ELF: because everyone else did.
Being able to keep up with other developments in the world of development
tools, not becoming a backwater, is an important point. This will allow
FreeBSD to be a first-class Ada development system, using GNATS. ;^)
--
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